An automation network provides packet-based communication between the host and a client, wherein the client determines output values from the host in the event of errors in the communication between the host and the client, where the determination of output data can be performed in a separate local processing module in accordance with a less complex method than on the host, such that it becomes possible to perform complex open-loop and closed-loop control tasks on the host even in the case of mobile clients or other clients that are difficult to wire.
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2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the replacement output value packets are generated by the at least one client device with the aid of a local processing module assigned to the at least one client device.
3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the host device transmits parameters for the local processing module to the at least one client device.
4. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the host device transmits the local processing module to the at least one client device.
5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the host device transmits the local processing module to the at least one client device.
6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the host device transmitting the local processing module to the at least one client device via an alternative communication connection.
7. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the host device creates the local processing module based on a base operating point predetermined by the host device.
8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the host device determines the at least one predetermined base operating point at predetermined times.
11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the host device generates the output value packets for determining the manipulated variable by processing the input value packets created by the at least one client device from the measurement variable.
12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one client device generates the replacement output value packets until a temporal or local limitation in an event that at least one packet is not received within a predefined period on the packet-based communication connection.
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